Pressure
The force exerted by the weight of the air above us.
What is air pressure?
This gas is the main contributor to global warming and climate change.
Carbon Dioxide
A visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
What are clouds?
This is a rotating column of air that can cause severe damage, often appearing as a funnel cloud.
What is a tornado?
Any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth.
What is precipitation.
Air pressure decreases as you go higher.
What happens to air pressure as you go higher in the atmosphere?
These arctic animals are the most affected by climate change.
What are polar bears?
When water vapor, an invisible gas, turns into liquid water droplets.
This term is used for a hurricane that forms in the Pacific Ocean, usually affecting areas like Japan.
What is a typhoon?
This form of precipitation happens when rain freezes before hitting the ground.
What is sleet?
This type of pressure system is usually linked to cloudy skies and rain.
What is a low-pressure system?
This can affect our health, ability to grow food, housing, safety and work.
What is climate change?
Detached, individual, cauliflower-shaped clouds usually spotted in fair weather conditions.
What are cumulus clouds?
They are formed over the ocean, often beginning as a tropical wave—a low pressure area that moves through the moisture tropics, enhancing thunderstorm activity.
These are tiny, little drops of water that fall from clouds.
What is drizzle?
This type of pressure system is typically associated with clear skies and calm weather.
What is a high-pressure system?
These types of ice, which polar bears use for hunting seals, have been melting rapidly.
What are ice caps?
This is the most unique cloud.
What are mamatus clouds?
This severe weather event involves frozen rain and can make roads and trees dangerous.
What is an ice storm?
Coastal regions tend to experience more of this precipitation due to the proximity of large bodies of water.
What is rain?
This atmospheric event occurs when air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, creating wind.
What is pressure gradient force?
The hottest Northern Hemisphere extratropical summer in 2000 years.
What was summer in 2023
This is the region where air rising causes cooling, leading to cloud formation.
What is the troposphere?
The area of a hurricane with the strongest winds, usually surrounding the center, is known as this.
What is the eye wall?
This region, with a cold climate, typically experiences precipitation in the form of snow due to low temperatures.
What is the polar region?